Stories
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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’
I’m a painter, but I make worlds.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
Catalogue
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Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after himself, 1814.
Pass, John, active 1797-1815.Date: 1814Reference: 20163i- Books
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A true copy of some original letters, Which Pass'd between John Hall of Monk-Hesleden in the County of Durham, an Eminent Quaker Teacher, and William Walker of East-Thickley in the same County, Farmer, whose Wife had the Misfortune to be seduc'd to Quakerism.
Hall, John, active 1726.Date: Printed and Sold by John White, 1725
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Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19274i
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Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Reference: 26270i
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Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19278i